Flock 0.9 Coming...

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Flock, the Mozilla based web browser still under development in private beta, is getting a nice overhaul with its 0.9 release tomorrow. If you’re not familiar with Flock, it was released in 2005 with much anticipation and hype as the social network browser. Flock was created to integrate various social networks into one browser platform so you could conceivably post items to your blog, update your Facebook page, upload to Flickr and all the while stream YouTube videos.

It didn’t live up to its hype for various reasons and some would argue, Firefox accomplishes all these social network tasks with their never ending inventory of useful add-ons.

However, the blogosphere’s consensus is Flock 0.9 is a bird of a different feather (no more bird references, we swear) and is quite positive about Flock’s new makeover. Here are some nifty features:

My World: Flock tells you when your friends have new photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.

Account Detection: Informs you when there are available feeds and media streams on a page and when your account log-in can be configured with Flock.

Video Support: Find YouTube and Truveo videos with the Media Minibar.

Online Favorites: Easily post your favorites to del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.

Drag’n’Drop: Drag and drop photos and images from the Web Clipboard to webmail, comments, blogs, etc.

BlogEditor: Added Blogger and LiveJournal support. Also, now you can preview what your blog post will look like before pushing ‘Publish.’ Tags are now enabled and have included Technorati, Livejournal and Blogger-specific tags.

Photo Uploader: Edit options for a specific photo or the whole batch; easily set photo to commonly selected sizes

Flock has these media apps covered:

Blogging: Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, Wordpress.com, Typepad
Media: Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube
Bookmarks: del.icio.us, ma.gnolia

We realize you can’t have everything, but where’s Twitter? New guy on the block, Pownce? Maybe we can expect to see Flock support these additions in the 1.0 release sometime this fall.

Flock runs on Windows, Mac and Linux…

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this news will definitely be of interest to polonus :slight_smile:

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don’t anyone have a list of the firefox extensions that work with flock 8)
the only one’s i have so far are adblock and customizegoogle…
WOT and Finjan were not compatable ???
i have openDNS http://www.opendns.com/ installed so that’s help a-bit :wink:

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am i right damian ;D

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Hi Dan,

There is the following you can do, first download all the extensions you like from the official Flock extensions page. To make certain extensions work you can enforce them to work with flock by first downloading the nightly tester tools extension: http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly or read here:
http://forum.addonsmirror.net/index.php?showtopic=6432
When it says this extension was designed for FF, do you want to install it anyway, force it then…

polonus

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When it says this extension was designed for FF, do you want to install it anyway, force it then....
as i said in the pm i disabled the add-on compatabily check in the tool option and they installed-will there be a problem with the extensions-i have on wot and siteadvisor and no script so far and the ones i mentioned above....
download all the extensions you like from the official Flock extensions page.
wow-all ten or so of them http://extensions.flock.com/addons i went to the official firefox extension page to get the thousands of them ;D
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Hi drhayden1,

The only hick-up you will get is as Flock will automatically upgrade to a later version, then you will get a compatibility check, but with all your settings and extensions in your febe folder, you only have to reinstall febe to get all the firefox enforced extensions back on. So untill Flock ask you to go and download a new version you are fine.

polonus

P.S. Nice artwork with the Flock Banner

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ok thanks for the info.and help as always damian and what’s the ketchup for ??? ::slight_smile:

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Hi Dan,

Because Americans have everything with ketchup ;D